= Vert.x Camel Bridge
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Apache Camel (http://camel.apache.org) is an open source Java framework that focuses on making integration easier
and more accessible to developers.

This bridge lets Vert.x applications interact with Camel endpoints:

* the application can send messages to Camel.
* the application can receive message from Camel.

The bridge relies on the Vert.x event bus and associate an event bus address to a Camel endpoint.

CAUTION: This component is not _polyglot_ as it requires some classes from Camel that can only be used in Java.

== Using vertx-camel-bridge

To use the Vert.x Camel Bridge, add the following dependency to the _dependencies_ section of your
build descriptor:

* Maven (in your `pom.xml`):

[source,xml,subs="+attributes"]
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<dependency>
  <groupId>io.vertx</groupId>
  <artifactId>vertx-camel-bridge</artifactId>
  <version>3.4.1</version>
</dependency>
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* Gradle (in your `build.gradle` file):

[source,groovy,subs="+attributes"]
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compile 'io.vertx:vertx-camel-bridge:3.4.1'
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== Bridge configuration

Before being used, the bridge needs to be configured and started:

[source,js]
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var camel = new (Java.type("org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext"))();
Java.type("io.vertx.camel.CamelBridge").create(vertx, new (Java.type("io.vertx.camel.CamelBridgeOptions"))(camel).addInboundMapping(Java.type("io.vertx.camel.InboundMapping").fromCamel("direct:stuff").toVertx("eventbus-address")).addOutboundMapping(Java.type("io.vertx.camel.OutboundMapping").fromVertx("eventbus-address").toCamel("stream:out"))).start();

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The bridge requires a `CamelContext`. It will find the endpoint from the context. The bridge needs to be started
before being used. Be aware the the `start` method is asynchronous. You can use
`start` to be notified when the bridge has been started.



=== Inbound mapping

Inbound mapping associates a Camel endpoint to an event bus address. Messages received on this endpoint are
transformed to event bus messages.

[source,js]
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var endpoint = camel.getEndpoint("direct:foo");

Java.type("io.vertx.camel.CamelBridge").create(vertx, new (Java.type("io.vertx.camel.CamelBridgeOptions"))(camel).addInboundMapping(Java.type("io.vertx.camel.InboundMapping").fromCamel("direct:stuff").toVertx("eventbus-address")).addInboundMapping(Java.type("io.vertx.camel.InboundMapping").fromCamel(endpoint).toVertx("eventbus-address")).addInboundMapping(Java.type("io.vertx.camel.InboundMapping").fromCamel(endpoint).toVertx("eventbus-address").withoutHeadersCopy()).addInboundMapping(Java.type("io.vertx.camel.InboundMapping").fromCamel(endpoint).toVertx("eventbus-address").usePublish()).addInboundMapping(Java.type("io.vertx.camel.InboundMapping").fromCamel(endpoint).toVertx("eventbus-address").withBodyType(Java.type("java.lang.String").class)));

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The snippet above shows different ways to configure an inbound mapping:

* you can configure the Camel endpoint either using the `Endpoint` object or its uri
* you can disables the header copy (Camel message headers are copied to the event bus message)
* you can uses `publish` instead of `send` to broadcast the message to all event bus consumers
* you can configures the type of the event bus message body. If not set it uses the Camel message payload. If
sets, it looks in the Camel context for a converter between the Camel message payload and the desired type.

_Note_: `org.fusesource.hawtbuf.Buffer` are automatically converted to `link:../../jsdoc/module-vertx-js_buffer-Buffer.html[Buffer]`.

If `send` is used (so not `publish`), and when the Camel exchange expect a reply (_In Out_ exchange), the Vert.x
code expect as reply to the sent message. When the reply arrives it is propagated to the exchange:

[source,js]
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=== Outbound mapping

Outbound mapping associates an event bus address to a Camel endpoint. Messages received on this event bus address
are transformed to Camel messages and sent to the endpoint.

[source,js]
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var endpoint = camel.getEndpoint("stream:out");

Java.type("io.vertx.camel.CamelBridge").create(vertx, new (Java.type("io.vertx.camel.CamelBridgeOptions"))(camel).addOutboundMapping(Java.type("io.vertx.camel.OutboundMapping").fromVertx("eventbus-address").toCamel("stream:out")).addOutboundMapping(Java.type("io.vertx.camel.OutboundMapping").fromVertx("eventbus-address").toCamel(endpoint)).addOutboundMapping(Java.type("io.vertx.camel.OutboundMapping").fromVertx("eventbus-address").toCamel(endpoint).withoutHeadersCopy()).addOutboundMapping(Java.type("io.vertx.camel.OutboundMapping").fromVertx("eventbus-address").toCamel(endpoint)));

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The snippet above shows different ways to configure an outbound mapping.

You can connect your outbound mapping to a Camel route:

[source,js]
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camel.addRoutes(new (Java.type("org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder"))());

var bridge = Java.type("io.vertx.camel.CamelBridge").create(vertx, new (Java.type("io.vertx.camel.CamelBridgeOptions"))(camel).addOutboundMapping(Java.type("io.vertx.camel.OutboundMapping").fromVertx("test").toCamel("direct:start")));

camel.start();
bridge.start();


vertx.eventBus().send("test", "hello", function (reply, reply_err) {
  // Reply from the route (here it's "OK")
});

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If when you send the message on the event bus you register a reply handler, it configures the Camel exchange to
expect a response (it uses the request-reply pattern of the EIP). The response is passed in the reply body. If the
route fails, you get a reply failure (recipient failure), with the message as cause:

[source,js]
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camel.addRoutes(new (Java.type("org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder"))());

var bridge = Java.type("io.vertx.camel.CamelBridge").create(vertx, new (Java.type("io.vertx.camel.CamelBridgeOptions"))(camel).addOutboundMapping(Java.type("io.vertx.camel.OutboundMapping").fromVertx("camel-route").toCamel("direct:my-route")));

camel.start();
bridge.start();

vertx.eventBus().send("camel-route", "hello", function (reply, reply_err) {
  if (reply_err == null) {
    var theResponse = reply.body();
  } else {
    var theCause = reply_err;
  }
});

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If the processing you apply is blocking, you **must** set _blocking_ to `true`. This avoid executing the
processing on the event loop thread:

[source,js]
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camel.addRoutes(new (Java.type("org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder"))());

var bridge = Java.type("io.vertx.camel.CamelBridge").create(vertx, new (Java.type("io.vertx.camel.CamelBridgeOptions"))(camel).addOutboundMapping(Java.type("io.vertx.camel.OutboundMapping").fromVertx("camel-route").toCamel("direct:my-route").setBlocking(true)));

camel.start();
bridge.start();

vertx.eventBus().send("camel-route", "hello", function (reply, reply_err) {
  if (reply_err == null) {
    var theResponse = reply.body();
  } else {
    var theCause = reply_err;
  }
});

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By default it uses the default worker thread pool, this is customizable using the
`setWorkerExecutor` method.

== Stopping the bridge

Don't forget to stop the bridge using the `stop` method. The `stop` method is asynchronous. You can use
`stop` to be notified when the bridge has been stopped.

